Monday, November 16, 2009
Benny Mardones "Into the Night" (1980)
How special must a pop song be to chart in 1980 AND again in 1989. Well, special, but not really in a good way.
Sonically, it sounds for the most part like standard Michael Bolton type faux Adult contemporary soul/pop/pabulum.
...but this song has a sick underbelly, which isn't really a belly, and really isn't under...
In fact, check out the very first lyric: "She's just 16 years old/'leave her alone' they say"
You think, Benny?
Statutory Rape is what it's called, you sick freak. She's a child.
Besides, there is not a 16 year old alive ever who would listen to this kind of music. It's late night cocktail white pop.
Benny has a rock edge to his dirty old man voice on the chorus, where he gets downright gritty and exclaims "If I could fly, I'd pick you up...I'd take you into the night and show you a love like you've never seen"...
"Love" in this case, is Benny's manhood which he brags about throughout and apparently he wants to feel supernatural (flying) and teach this 16 year old all about his power by severing her hymen in the most violent of ways...which will make him feel powerful because he can't figure out women his own age, and thus is regressing to his horny puberty days.
This would be standard pop crap if it wasn't for the last minute, when Benny GOES BERSERK, and screams and grunts in ways that would make Kurt Cobain proud. Except unlike Cobain, Mardones's screams come, not from inner pain, but from a ridiculous desire to chase young girls.
Loser. Check the National Sex Registry for Mr. Mardones.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
A Political statement from an average Joe/Adam
is, in some ways, a socialist. I find the attempts to use the word in a demonizing fashion in the same way people use the word "Nazi" and "terrorist" completely misguided and stupid. I don't think it works on a large scale...but that bullshit about how Reagen won the Cold War for us is revisionist propaganda. If Gorbachev hadn't have been willing to change things, and he and Reagan hadn't become close, the events of 20 years ago would not have occured. Sorry Fox News!
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
is a legitimate hero of mine, and I don't think I have more than a few.
While being a dominant, excellent athlete...the man is one of the pre-eminent historians writing today, and a man whose intellect seemingly knows no bounds.
He is a quiet, intense athletic nerdy book type.
And he was phenomenal in Airplane!.
He announced this week that he is battling a rare form of leukemia. The prognosis is actually good, but I wanted to take this time to praise and marvel at the man and his life.
We are lucky to have him here.
While being a dominant, excellent athlete...the man is one of the pre-eminent historians writing today, and a man whose intellect seemingly knows no bounds.
He is a quiet, intense athletic nerdy book type.
And he was phenomenal in Airplane!.
He announced this week that he is battling a rare form of leukemia. The prognosis is actually good, but I wanted to take this time to praise and marvel at the man and his life.
We are lucky to have him here.
a scary great story about modern technology
So, I'm at a bar, talking about porn, and I discuss the amputee porn fetish that finds people either attracted to deformed lovers, or surgically removing limbs of their own. The person I told refused to believe me (as if I would make this stuff up).
Within seconds, this person grabs their iPhone and finds photos backing up my story, while also showing graphic photos of a woman and a dog. In seconds.
In the middle of a crowded bar.
This is when it hit me that Steve Jobs has really changed our lives.
Within seconds, this person grabs their iPhone and finds photos backing up my story, while also showing graphic photos of a woman and a dog. In seconds.
In the middle of a crowded bar.
This is when it hit me that Steve Jobs has really changed our lives.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
"Too Big To Fail"
Sounds like it should have been used in reference to John Holmes drug related impotence in the 1980s.
Friday, November 13, 2009
SEAL- "CRAZY" (1991)
This song is the soundtrack to your life when there is a tension or passion bubbling just underneath the surface, right when something is going to happen.
It starts out of focus, as you sit at an upscale bar looking around, thinking about how SHIT IS ABOUT TO GO DOWN.
Either you are going to end up going at it with that person that you just met at the bar, but feel the powerful mutual unspoken lust vibe with
...or that dude in the corner is going to shoot you, or that girl is going to start crying, or those people are going to get into a big argument, or there is going to be a brawl.
This is a lingering, intense, beautiful calm before a potential tsunami of emotion.
It starts out of focus, as you sit at an upscale bar looking around, thinking about how SHIT IS ABOUT TO GO DOWN.
Either you are going to end up going at it with that person that you just met at the bar, but feel the powerful mutual unspoken lust vibe with
...or that dude in the corner is going to shoot you, or that girl is going to start crying, or those people are going to get into a big argument, or there is going to be a brawl.
This is a lingering, intense, beautiful calm before a potential tsunami of emotion.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
LeBron Detox
My fives and fives of loyal readers will know that I love Lebron James like a son. As a result, I have cheered for his Cleveland Cavaliers for the last 2 years.
But this year, I can't.
After his bizarre reaction after Orlando exposed the Cavs as a limited team, and his hints that he was heading out, I sort of detached myself.
Lebron becomes a free agent after this season, so his future is hanging over everything he and the Cavs do this year, which is a stressful nightmare.
If he stays in Cleveland, it would be a beautiful and rare sign of loyalty in modern sports. He's only going to stay if Cleveland makes an effort to get another superstar in his prime who compliments Lebron and gives him a shot at starting a dynasty.
Most likely, he's going elsewhere. New York wants him, but I think he realizes that the team is so bad, that he'd have a better shot at a championship in CLE.
Miami, if they can re-sign the unbelievably brilliant and somehow slightly under the radar Dewayne Wade, would have the best one-two punch in sports if those 2 were on the same team. New York may even try to get both of them next off season....
What I'm trying to say is: I can't let my heart get attached this year. The Cavs are not that good, Lebron is going to make a decision, and I must re-evaluate at that point.
In other NBA news...Allen Iverson, as talented as he is, is a real piece of crap as a professional basketball player. He may not play again, because he didn't like coming off the bench. Ugh.
Steve Nash is so magnificent. Best point guard of his era, and the runaway MVP so far.
It looks like we are heading to yet another Celtics/Lakers final...if everyone is healthy, it could be a CLASSIC. I hope so.
But this year, I can't.
After his bizarre reaction after Orlando exposed the Cavs as a limited team, and his hints that he was heading out, I sort of detached myself.
Lebron becomes a free agent after this season, so his future is hanging over everything he and the Cavs do this year, which is a stressful nightmare.
If he stays in Cleveland, it would be a beautiful and rare sign of loyalty in modern sports. He's only going to stay if Cleveland makes an effort to get another superstar in his prime who compliments Lebron and gives him a shot at starting a dynasty.
Most likely, he's going elsewhere. New York wants him, but I think he realizes that the team is so bad, that he'd have a better shot at a championship in CLE.
Miami, if they can re-sign the unbelievably brilliant and somehow slightly under the radar Dewayne Wade, would have the best one-two punch in sports if those 2 were on the same team. New York may even try to get both of them next off season....
What I'm trying to say is: I can't let my heart get attached this year. The Cavs are not that good, Lebron is going to make a decision, and I must re-evaluate at that point.
In other NBA news...Allen Iverson, as talented as he is, is a real piece of crap as a professional basketball player. He may not play again, because he didn't like coming off the bench. Ugh.
Steve Nash is so magnificent. Best point guard of his era, and the runaway MVP so far.
It looks like we are heading to yet another Celtics/Lakers final...if everyone is healthy, it could be a CLASSIC. I hope so.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Random things in my head
~~"Bed, Bath and Beyond". BEYOND? This cheese grater has some metaphyscial power that can't be properly explained in a category within the realm of my understanding????
~~Fergie did an interview with The Advocate. The highlights: she's bisexual, and her husband is large in the pants.
Wow, this woman is such a crazy rebel! Soooo cool! tee hee, woo hoo.
Here are some other things that we know about this awesome rebel badass "Fergie":
1. She's a big girl, and she doesn't cry.
2. She likes to get "london bridged".
3. She likes to pee herself.
4. She used to do crystal meth,
5. She likes to dress like a boy,
6. She likes to rub gasoline on her stomach while dogs bark and smack her in the face,
7. She likes to dress up like a bottle of Milk of Magnesia and expel lit candles from her backside,
8. She likes to get her chest whipped while the DVD of Howard's End is played at full blast,
9. She likes to get tied up and thrown into the garbage,
10. She likes to be force fed spicy food by underdevelpoed men named Roger
Sarah, you are already, for inexplicable reasons, one of the top recording acts of the decade...you can drop this poseur act and be real now.
~~Fergie did an interview with The Advocate. The highlights: she's bisexual, and her husband is large in the pants.
Wow, this woman is such a crazy rebel! Soooo cool! tee hee, woo hoo.
Here are some other things that we know about this awesome rebel badass "Fergie":
1. She's a big girl, and she doesn't cry.
2. She likes to get "london bridged".
3. She likes to pee herself.
4. She used to do crystal meth,
5. She likes to dress like a boy,
6. She likes to rub gasoline on her stomach while dogs bark and smack her in the face,
7. She likes to dress up like a bottle of Milk of Magnesia and expel lit candles from her backside,
8. She likes to get her chest whipped while the DVD of Howard's End is played at full blast,
9. She likes to get tied up and thrown into the garbage,
10. She likes to be force fed spicy food by underdevelpoed men named Roger
Sarah, you are already, for inexplicable reasons, one of the top recording acts of the decade...you can drop this poseur act and be real now.
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Joshua
Dolly Parton, ignored the warnings of her friends and family about the creepy mean man who lived on the other side of the railroad tracks, wandered onto his property with her lovebags, his dog almost killed her, he invited her in...they spend all day and night talking, he asked her to stay, they fell in love, and got married. Dolly admits that all along she was looking for a long haired freaky loner.
This song is creepy, but hot.
Rihanna
Even before "the incident", her entire music career was filled with songs about her role as an emotionally and physically abused sucker for her man's love. This phenomenon has never been captured by an artist before, and it makes her all the more essential. Yet, it's harder post-incident to not feel that this might be too personal for mainstream pop audiences.
Rihanna might be one of the most physcially beautiful celebrities that we have ever seen...but one gets the sense that she is struggling with serious issues emotionally.
Rihanna might be one of the most physcially beautiful celebrities that we have ever seen...but one gets the sense that she is struggling with serious issues emotionally.
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